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Re:Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... ... by elblanco on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:26PM (#1023153)
> [1] Exhibit A: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1021157

This is one of the rare cases where humor bought upvotes. I'd say for every 10 evenly mildly humorous comments, 9 of them are voted down.

Re:Welcome to HN: A refresher course on how to disagree... ... by akkartik on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @09:40PM (#1023698)
I agree. And the upvoted humor needs to be relatively good to get past our collective restraint. A few days ago I instinctively clicked on a funny comment before regretting it; that prob happens to a lot of folks.

But a) I see a couple of upvoted funnies everyday, and b) things are worse than they were a year ago. I'm joining in the fuss about it in hopes that we can stem the rot.